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It took the NYPD – thirty-five thousand officers! – twenty-eight fucking hours to arrest one madman on a killing spree:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/nyreg ... f=nyregion

Time for more heads to roll.

So why there and nowhere else ? A unique, one-time mistake never repeated elsewhere ?

Swamp gas seems more plausible.

uniface wrote:So why there

Because it happened there?

and nowhere else ?

Who said "nowhere else"?

A unique, one-time mistake

Yeah, right...
A one-time mistake that killed 3 people, landed 7 severely wounded in hospital, and went on for TWENTY-EIGHT F..CKING HOURS straight. That's one helluva looong 'one-time mistake'! By a collective force of thousands supposedly NYPD 'professionals'.
That's not just a one-time mistake. That's a major culpable cock-up!

never repeated elsewhere ?

I should hope not. But I'm not holding my breath.

Where was the "mistake?"

The mistake was I posted a comment on one thread in another thread.

Except that I don't recall ever reading the thread it showed up in . . .

You just confused the hell out of me, Uni.


Seriously, a "mistake" would be catching the guy and letting him go. Or shooting the wrong guy 41 times. (The NYPD has done that before, too.)

Makes me want to play GTA

dannan14 wrote:Makes me want to play GTA

Unfortunately cops all too often use real two-tonne vehicles, and full metal jacket .38 caliber slugs to commit their cock-ups with. Joysticks don't hurt.
This time they had a raving madman doing the dirty work, though, while they apparently collectively took their sweet time to finish their coffee and donuts, and ogling the waitress.

The Dutch police are armed with pea shooters by the way chaps.
And don't the NYPD in fact use 9 mils with soft nosed bullets?

Roy.